Explosive Peeps

A reader writes, "Can peeps be popped like popcorn? Thus making peepcorn?"

Given their amazing expansion after a few seconds in the microwave, one might conclude that Peeps will explode if microwaved long enough. However, this experimenter has done some trials and found that Peeps do not explode so readily. When left in the microwave, Peeps expand quickly, then begin to deflate a bit, and then the bottoms caramelize and eventually burn.

It should be possible to make Peepcorn. Stock Peeps do not detonate because there is no pressure buildup. Any moisture inside the Peeps is allowed to safely escape when heated. To make Peepcorn, you would need a hard outer shell like popcorn has in order to trap the expanding gases and force an explosion. If anyone has ideas or gets this to work, let me know!

November 1

Of course, it's the best candy shopping day of the year (marked down Halloween candy). So I swung by the local Albertson's to see what they had going. They didn't have much variety for Peeps, but that's OK. There was a large box of 24 cartons of Peeps Pumpkins, marked half off. Of course I picked it up. Let's see, at 24 pumpkins per carton and 24 cartons, that's over 500 Peeps. Yeah, should last me until Easter. Or at least Christmas, when the next varieties of Peeps come out.

When my roommate came home after this episode and saw the case of Peeps in the living room, there were renewed calls by him for me to look into Peeps Anonymous.